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Author
Series
Gunnie Rose volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this alternate history where the US has collapsed during WWII and been split into five different countries, including the southwestern territory of Texoma, Gunnie Lizbeth Rose is hired by two Russian magicians to find Alex Karkarov, and his family, as they need to bring them back to the New Russia-held west coast states for the blood of the Karkarov line is healing to the ruling family. Little do the magicians know that Lizbeth is Karkarov's daughter,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a modern America where the Civil War never happened and four states still enforce slavery follows the experiences of a talented black bounty hunter who infiltrates an abolitionist group to catch a high-profile runaway.
6) Front lines
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
xv, 548 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a court decision that makes women eligible for service in the fight against the Nazis, three young women volunteer to serve their country, unaware that their decisions will take them to the front lines of the conflict.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
xxi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1943, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio accompany the American Army to Sicily to fight on the front lines.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier's propulsive, genre-bending debut novel asks: what happens when we discover intelligent life just next door? And what does it really mean to know we're not alone in the universe?The odds of the planet next door hosting intelligent life areāthat's not luck. That's a miracle. It means something.In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio join thousands of Allies in their deadliest battle yet as they descend into the freezing water and onto the sands of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.